ENGINEER · PILOT · BUILDER

ABOUT / SEIF ELKHASHAB

ENGINEERING
IS ONLY PART
OF THE STORY.

I am an engineer, pilot, athlete, and builder shaped by two countries and drawn to difficult systems—technical, organizational, and human.

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01

THE THROUGH LINE

Built between worlds.

My perspective was formed between Egypt and the United States, technical work and physical work, individual ambition and team responsibility.

I have always been interested in what makes a system perform: how its parts interact, where it fails, and what disciplined people can do to improve it.

That question led me from systems and control theory at Washington University to defense systems at Leonardo DRS and automatic flight-control work at Boeing. Outside engineering, it led to aviation, varsity athletics, a small business, and hands-on renovation work.

Each environment reinforced the same lesson: analysis matters, but the standard is whether the whole system works when reality arrives.

02

JOURNEY

A technical foundation.

Selected chapters that built my professional range.

2024—2026

Boeing

Guidance, Navigation & Control engineering for automatic flight-control analysis, qualification testing, and engineering automation.

2024

Washington University

Completed an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and B.S. in Systems Engineering after four years at WashU.

2023

Leonardo DRS

Systems engineering internship spanning vehicle control, requirements, analysis, and testing.

2020—2024

Ervin Scholar + NCAA Athlete

Balanced graduate-level engineering with varsity football, track and field, and the Ervin Scholar community.

2020—2021

Imperial Landscaping

Built and operated a landscaping business—learning sales, training, scheduling, and responsibility for delivery.

03

BEYOND THE RÉSUMÉ

Other ways I learn.

The experiences that influence how I lead, communicate, and make decisions.

AVIATION

Private Pilot

Flying turns systems thinking into a physical discipline: preparation, checklists, weather, risk, and decisions with immediate consequences.

ATHLETICS

Football & Track

Years of varsity competition developed consistency, coachability, and the ability to execute when effort is no longer the differentiator.

BUILDING

Business & Renovation

Landscaping and hands-on renovation work taught me to respect operations, economics, customers, and the reality between a plan and delivery.

LANGUAGE

Arabic & English

Native or bilingual fluency gives me a natural bridge between technical communities in the United States, Egypt, and the wider MENA region.

04

CURRENT DIRECTION

Learn deeply. Share openly. Bring capable people together.

After leaving Boeing, I returned to Egypt for a deliberate period of growth. I am deepening my skills, learning to create valuable technical content, and developing a stronger understanding of industry across Egypt and MENA.

I do not yet have a company thesis I am pretending to know. The goal is to earn one: by getting close to real operators, real constraints, and problems important enough to build around.